{"id":75261,"date":"2017-01-31T10:13:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T10:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/esri-vector-basemaps-latest-updates\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T23:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:45:11","slug":"esri-vector-basemaps-latest-updates","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/mapping\/mapping\/esri-vector-basemaps-latest-updates","title":{"rendered":"Esri Vector Basemaps Latest Updates"},"author":6081,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[22941],"tags":[22951,23171,23951,40161,33541,29031],"industry":[],"product":[36581,36551,36561],"class_list":["post-75261","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","tag-arcgis-content","tag-basemaps","tag-community-maps-program","tag-living-atlas-of-the-world","tag-vector-basemaps","tag-vector-tile","product-arcgis-living-atlas","product-arcgis-online","product-arcgis-pro"],"acf":{"short_description":"Updated December 8, 2017:\u00a0 The Esri Vector Basemaps were recently updated to a new version (v2). The best way to access them in ArcGIS O...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Updated December 8, 2017:<\/strong>\u00a0 The Esri Vector Basemaps were recently updated to a new version (v2). The best way to access them in ArcGIS Online is through the Esri owned\u00a0Vector Basemaps group<\/a>, which contains the latest set of web maps and tile layers. See\u00a0What\u2019s New in Esri Vector Basemaps (December 2017)<\/a>\u00a0for information related to this update.<\/p>\n

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The latest updates to the Esri Vector Basemaps<\/a> were released late last week. We\u00a0previously blogged<\/a> about these maps’ transition from their beta release last spring through their release as production maps<\/a> just last month.<\/p>\n

Topographic & Street Map styles with updated data (Cupertino, CA; Lake County, IL)
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Benefits of Esri Vector Basemaps<\/strong>
\nThe vector basemap format holds several benefits over its raster counterpart. One is the ability to customize the vector map style by changing colors, line attributes and even fonts. Another benefit of the vector maps is updated data. In this latest vector release, we made improvements to our data and added the contributions of 20 communities through the Esri Community Maps Program<\/a>. This data is available in all 9 map styles<\/a>\u00a0because they all reference the single tile set we produce for the vector basemaps. \u00a0This vector tile set is also referenced by our sample vector basemap creations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Navigation & Terrain with Labels map styles with updated data (Whiteside County, IL; Rocklin, CA)<\/span>\"\"<\/address>\n

Community Contributions<\/strong> added or updated in this release:<\/p>\n

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